When it comes to newborn babies taking their mother's last name, there is even less.
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AntonioGuillem/iStock / Getty Images Plus In the seven years since, there is little data to suggest that far more, or far less women elect to keep their maiden names.Īn expecting mother said that she and her husband are not talking after she decided she wanted to give the couple's unborn son her last name. "He was confused, saying we had an agreement.he said I can't just do that and called me selfish when I pointed out that I'm the mother and I get a say too."Īn analysis of The New York Times wedding announcements revealed that, in 2015, 29.5 percent of women kept their maiden names upon marriage.
"I went home and told my husband that I've changed my mind about the last name thing and want to have both our last names combined or my last name to be given to our son," she continued. "I talked to my family and they said my husband and in-laws are ridiculous to push this on me without a compromise." "Recently I started thinking about it a lot more and figured that it would be unfair for my unborn son to take my husband's family name and not mine," she wrote.
Recently, the Redditor said she had a change of heart and told her husband she wanted the child to take her last name, or a combination of both of their last names.Īdding that she kept her maiden name when the couple was married, the expecting mother acknowledged that she had agreed to give her child her husband's last name, but detailed why she changed her mind and the explosive aftermath of that decision. Titled, "AITA for refusing to give my unborn son my husband's last name?" the viral post has received over 6,000 votes and nearly 5,000 comments in just 9 hours.Įxplaining that she and her husband have been married for three years, the Redditor said that the couple is expecting a son, and had previously agreed that the boy would take his father's last name when he is born. In a post published on Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole, the anonymous Redditor asked the subreddit's 3.5 million members if she was wrong for wanting to pass down her maternal name instead of adhering to paternal traditions. Commenters were quick to call out an expecting mother who explained why she planned on giving her child her last name in a popular internet forum.
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